The Close Relationship Between Reading, Noetic Capacity for Self-Distancing and Assertiveness (Atena Editora)

Abstract

This study deals with reading as a psychosocial activity that contributes to the promotion of the noetic capacity for self-distancing, important for self-reflection and assertiveness, a social skill related to communicative expression in clear language. Readers with low levels of proficiency do not read texts or contexts with autonomy, not demonstrating self-reflection and assertiveness. The question is relevant: What is the relationship between reading, self-distancing and assertiveness? This is a correlational, descriptive, transversal and quantitative research that focused on 267 people from Santaluz/BA, Brazil, with the objective of analyzing the relationship between reading, the noetic capacity for self-distancing and assertiveness. The instruments used for data collection were the Reader Profile Questionnaire, developed by the researchers, the Längle Existential Scale, A. Orgler, C. and Kundi, M. (2003) and the Rathus Assertiveness Scale (1973). The correlation between the variables was performed using the Pearson model with significance p<0.05. Symmetric measures were also used to measure the degree of association between the variables, Phi, Cramer's V and contingency coefficient. The results showed a moderate association between reading and self-distancing and between reading and assertiveness, attesting to the benefits of reading to promote psychosocial skills. Symmetric measures were also used to measure the degree of association between the variables, Phi, Cramer's V and contingency coefficient. The results showed a moderate association between reading and self-distancing and between reading and assertiveness, attesting to the benefits of reading to promote psychosocial skills. Symmetric measures were also used to measure the degree of association between the variables, Phi, Cramer's V and contingency coefficient. The results showed a moderate association between reading and self-distancing and between reading and assertiveness, attesting to the benefits of reading to promote psychosocial skills.